- v.Funding; Plagiarism; Diversion; Illegal possession
- adj.The appropriate
- WebAppropriate; Proper; Suitable for
adj.appropriative
adv.appropriately
pt.appropriated
pp.appropriated
ppr.appropriating
3sg.appropriates
- To charm away..Ennui, is the chief and appropriate business of the poet.
Source: Coleridge - Some peoples think of women as too weak to work out of doors, others regard women as the appropriate bearers of heavy burdens.
Source: M. Mead - They must behave in a manner appropriate to the myth in which they were participating.
Source: J. Bowen - Actually, he looks lots better when he isn't dressed as he thinks appropriate for dinner at Illyria.
Source: A. Lurie - At an appropriate moment I shall strike the gong.
Source: B. England - He makes a wordless noise appropriate to male approval of female pulchritude.
Source: T. Stoppard - He was dressed in a tweed suit appropriate either to countryman or academic.
Source: D. Jacobson - The music on the radio was turned off; somehow a bit of quiet seemed more appropriate.
Source: G. Boycott - Appropriating the whole ships provisions to themselves.
Source: G. Anson - The name 'priesthood'..was never appropriated by apostles to themselves.
Source: E. Mellor
